Bob Newhart has passed away at age ninety four. You won't hear me speak
about Bob in today's episode. I had recorded it. I was actually editing
it just as the news came in the episode below. This one on the
feed is an oh bid episode published around five pm on Thursday afternoon, and
later this morning. I plan on doing a follow up to talk more about
Bob Newhart. So in the meantime, here's the normal Friday episode. Callaroga
Shark media really busy again, especially for a summer Friday. Hi, I'm
Johnny Mack with your daily Common News. I had pumped that Hank Azarias story
till tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow for sure. I'm planning on recording back
to back here, maybe sneaking a beach Friday. Nicki Glazer's publicist, you
have earned your money. Nicki got one of those wax job articles in Variety.
Nikki also got a wax job article in Deadline. Wow, let's start
with a Variety. They wrote. It may have only been nine minutes in
a two decade comedy career, but it was one that had all eyes on
Nicki Glazer in a very good pivotal way her set roasting Tom Brady, etc.
Et cetera. Yes, it was a very good moment. Nicki said,
I knew it was going well, but ride this way if you can't
relax, I can't celebrate anything until it's officially over. That's what her head
was telling her as she was doing the roast. You have this really short
amount of time where you have to be excellent. There's no room for error
because it's live and just the amount of eyes on you, the amount of
detail that was involved in each joke, it felt like a balance beam routine.
Honestly, as soon as I stuck the landing and finished it and walked
back to my seat, then I just felt like it was a dream.
Yeah, she nailed that set for sure. Varidy's wax Job says her name
was immediately buzzed about and people became aware of her who weren't aware of her
before. As luck would have it, within day she hit the bullseye for
a second time. Her HBO comedy special Someday You'll Die was released and was
another huge hit. I'll push back on that. I don't have the numbers,
but I feel culturally nobody talked about that special at all. And off
the heat of her roast. That should have been a huge special, and
it was on HBO. It wasn't onlike Johnny Max's basement streaming service should have
been major. But I don't feel like anybody saw it. I could be
wrong, Nicky says. Even though all I crave and want is attention and
all those things. When I get it, I kind of cower need to
undermine myself and create all the reasons why I don't deserve this. I must
have done something snaky to get this. How can I prove myself that I
don't deserve this? Comedians don't operate from a place of I'm amazing, look
at me. It's more like, am I amazing? Will you look at
me? And when you do, do I really deserve it? It just
never happened to me where something has been that critically and societally accepted and celebrated
like this. And I don't ever want to base only happiness around if people
are recognizing me at a Starbucks or not. Now here's where the publicist is
really going for their money. They just slipped to Variety that you know Nicky
would really like to host Saturday Night Live. Boy, I hope somehow Lauren
Michael sees this. Do you think he reads Variety? You think anyone will
put this in his news clippings package he probably gets every morning from NBC.
That's a thing that happens in the business. You get a news clipping package.
I don't know if Louren Michael's gets one every day, but I guarantee
you the news clipping package exists. Nicky says, I have loved the show
forever and admire the cast they have. Now I'm not waiting for the call,
but when it comes, it'll be an absolute Yes. It's like you're
dying for the call. But you're also like, please don't call me,
because I know that my life will be so hard. But you know,
that's what this career is. It's just a series of hard things. Variety
writes Lauren Michaels, Are you listening, so publicist? You earned your money?
Not just that one. Here's the one from Deadline. They wrote about
Nicky's news series and development at Amazon called Unsettling. She'll play the lead in
it, opposite fellow comic Jamie Lee. Nicki Glazer said, I just love
the people involved it. They make some of the funniest most heartwarming TV there
is, and I'm so excited to move forward with it. It's slowly coming
along, so it seems like something that will be happening, but you never
know what is it. It's a half hour single camera comedy about two childless
best friends in their thirties who decide to go in on a baby together,
navigating their lives as brand new platonic co parents. Bill Lawrence is behind this
one. You know him from such things as Scrubs and ted Lasso. Good
pedigree there. Nikki received an Emmy nomination for her special We'll talk about that
in a second, says, it's the kind of thing. It's a big
moment for an artist, just because I'll always get to be Emmy nominated Nicky
Glazer. Now, it's like you have that title for the rest of your
life, so they can't take that away from me. I'm just excited to
go to the Emmys. I love going to award shows. It's one of
my favorite things to do as a person in this business. Publicists laying some
more groundwork. They got this one and I are in deadline. I think
hosting an award show is something I'll be doing a lot of in my future,
just because it's something that falls in the same kind of category as the
roast ray of this prepared monologue. And there's a lot of pressure on Nicky,
dare you host the Golden Globes and mick a say Taylor Swift joke?
You know that doesn't go well. One time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift
joke. Let's listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh,
Scott beck in front of the show. Who hates that bit? He
emailed me on the Thursday morning, So Scott, you're on my mind.
That one was for you. Scott Beckett, thank you for listening. Nicky
says, I really thrive at those kind of settings when you're an audience some
people that showpen this and you have to do a really tight, tonally perfect
and funny monologue. I'd love to do it. I think my name is
being tossed around in those kinds of conversations, but we'll see. Yes,
please host the gold Globes. Actually, I want Joe Cooi to come back
just so I can do the bit for another year. I run out the
chance to do things that generally would scare other people. I think that stand
up and risting are both categories of entertainment, and other people in the business
are like, I wouldn't touch that, and thankfully I don't have that aversion
to it. Paublos is getting it more done. They got this in there.
I'd like to make a movie and being a round comm at some point,
I'd like to act alongside Julia Louis Dreyfus. At one point, I'd
like to host SNL mentioned again. I'd like to host an award show.
I'd like to sit in the VIP box at a Taylor Swift concert. I
mean, there's little goals here and there, but I'm really just happy with
how things are. And that's been the greatest realization is I honestly want more
free time with my family and my friends and my dog. I love how
she's thrown out this list. I'll throw out a list. I want to
host the Tonight Show on a Friday night. I want to do The Daily
Show on a Tuesday. I want Letterman a guest on my podcast. I
know those three things are happening, but I'll throw them out there. I'll
also host Saturday Night Live. If Lauren asked, Lauren, are you listening?
All right, you're me. Hominees for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded are
Billy Jowels Live at Madison Square Garden, Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, Dick
Van Dyke's ninety eight Years of Magic, Nicky Glazer Someday You'll Die, Trevor
Noah. Where was I out of those five? I would say, well,
from a comedy standpoint, Trevor was the best of those five. I
didn't see the Dick Vandyke. I did see some of the Billy Joel.
You know, Billy could get a Lifetime Achievement Award. Dick Van Dyke,
for sure could get a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not sure Nicky is gonna
win this one. And award shows do love giving awards to Dave Chappelle.
All right, Let's talk about the intersection of politics and comedy. Alonzo Bowden
was asked, when can you make a joke about, say, someone trying
to assassinate someone. Alonzo said, it's never too soon unless it's not funny.
Comedians will always make it funny no matter what happens. That's what we
do, it's how we communicate. In this case, Donald Trump is such
a character, and the fact that he wasn't killed the joke started immediately.
And I don't think he minds. He's one of those people. As long
as you're talking about him, it's a win. Matt Friend wrote in an
op ed for The Daily Beast, and he said, I dealt with my
shock and sadness by posting a graphic of my social of the instantly iconic image
of Trump with blood on his face pumping his fist. Under the photo,
I wrote, how long before this becomes merch? Got admit I had the
same thought As expected, I received a mix of positive engagement and furious backlash.
I had conflicting thoughts. On the one hand, the joke was making
fun of Trump's habit of turning everything he does in a merchandise. On the
other hand, I was trying to be funny after a former president was nearly
killed. I ended up taking down the post, and that caused my head
to circle with questions, does this mean I didn't stand up for comedy?
Where's the lines that I cross it? In order to get closer into answering
these questions, I've been turning to comedy's pass for advice. Johnny Carson once
said, I think one of the dangers if you were a comedian, if
you start to take yourself too seriously and start to comment on social issues,
your sense of humor suffers. Somewhere in nineteen eighty one, Carson hosted the
Oscars one day after Ronald Reagan was shot. At that time, Johnny said,
he happens to be in very good spirits. After all, you must
remember this as a man who, yesterday, while he was in the hospital
unable to speak, wrote on a sheet of paper, all things considered,
I'd rather be in Philadelphia. So tonight the show does go on, my
friend said, while a delicate joke, Carson managed to gracefully touch on the
attempted assassination of Reagan. Trey Crowder apparently knew jd Vance back in the day
and did a three minute joke field rant about him. Trey Crowder said,
you know, if you were to tell me when I was a kid that
one day a white trash hillbilly would have a shot at the White House,
I would have been like, what with a potato gun? No? No
is the vice president. Damn, that's wild. Tell me more about this
hero. What was he? A man of the people, civil rights attorney,
no Ivy League educated venture capitalists who first rose to fame by selling us
all out. Oh well, that's disappointing. From the Guardian, a twenty
eight year old German comedian got in trouble with Trump supporters and then Elon Musk
after a series of tweets. Sebastian Hats, who posts and performs as el
Hatso, lost his job as a broadcaster this week for the tweets. He
apparently tweeted something along the lines of that the attempt on Saturday had been like
the last bus. Unfortunately just missed those of the words of Hats, not
me. He also published a post saying it was absolutely fantastic when fascists die.
Hatts has seven hundred thousand followers on Twitter. He deleted the original post,
but screenshots of them we were published on social media. He then wrote
absolutely no one forces anyone to sympathize with fascists. You can do without it
without the slightest consequences. The controversy prompted the Berlin based public broadcaster RBB to
cancel Hots's involvement with one of its radio shows, which he had co hosted
since twenty twenty two. The program director said his remarks are not compatible with
the values for which RBB stands. I always like hearing from you guys.
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Much appreciate it. Always great to hear from you. Out today a
new song from weird Al. We don't know what it is yet. Well
we might by the time you're listening to this. As Johnny Mack records this,
Johnny Mack doesn't know if it's a parody or an original. Will it
be a physical release. His last new song was called now You Know,
played over the closing credits to weird the Al Yankovic story back in twenty two.
In twenty twenty three, weird Al told comicbook dot Com, I don't
think I'll do another conventional album. The soundtrack came out last year, but
that's a various artist album. I'm not giving up music. I'll probably put
out at least one new track next year. I guess he didn't lie,
but I don't really like the business model of waiting until I have twelve songs
and then putting them all out at once. I like coming up with an
idea and if it's good enough, I want to get it out immediately.
And now I can because I not be holding to any contract of business model.
Roywood Junior will put his next stand up special on Hulu. He'll tape
in in September at the Lincoln Theater in Washington. Hulu is bringing the comedy
This Falls. So far, they've announced Jim Gaffigan and Bill Burr. They've
also licensed a bunch of specials from eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. See we're hearing
a lot about those guys now in Comedy Dynamics. Netflix will have Matt Riffe's
next special. This one going to be all crowd work. Rolling Stone reports
for a full hour at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, and
Matt Rife alied solely on his audience to keep the show afloat Rife's off the
cuff performance was captured for his upcoming Netflix special Lucid out on Netflix August thirteenth.
Matt Riife says that this show is going to be completely different from anything
you've ever seen live or on Netflix before. This is just me and you
guys. There is a trailer. Let's listen to the beginning of it before
he gets a little too naughty. This show is going to be completely different
from anything you've seen live or on Netflix before. This is an entire crowd
work special. This is just me and you, guys. I don't know
what you're gonna say. I don't know what I'm gonna say. I want
you guys to be aware you are equally as at fault for how this goes
as and that istra comedy news for today tomorrow normal episode. Ran out of
interviews. That's fine, there's plenty of news. I bumped a lot of
stuff from today's show. So tomorrow's a normal episode. Monday's a normal episode.
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